In my Web application I need to play some videos using Silverlight video player. The videos need to start playing from a dynamically determined time. The issue I am having is that in Chrome the seek time is very long, quite often on the order of 20 seconds or more depending on how far I seek on the video, while in Internet Explorer the seek time is much faster, quite often about 2-3 seconds and it doesn't seem to depend on how far from the current position I seek.
The videos are served by IIS 7. Most of the videos are mp4 but unfortunately there are some in wmv format; that's why I have to use Silverlight. The seek time doesn't seem to depend on the video format. Silverlight version is 5.1.30214.0.
For the mp4 videos I tried playing them in Chrome using html5 video tag and the seek time is much better compared to Silverlight. Unfortunately as I said I have to use Silverlight.
What could be the reason for this strange behavior?
Follow these steps exactly and that should fix your problem:
Make sure you are running a Silverlight-compatible Windows operating system and browser and that you have uninstalled any previous version of Silverlight.
Download Silverlight
For Windows Internet Explorer users:
The browser will prompt you to either run or save the installation file (Silverlight.exe). Click Run to start the download. When the download is finished, the browser prompts you again to run the installer. Click Run to start the installation. Note that you must have sufficient administrative privileges to install Silverlight (5.1.30214.0).
Install Silverlight
If you are running the Windows Vista operating system, you will be prompted for security permissions. To continue, you need to approve.
Click 'Install now' after reviewing the license agreement and privacy statement.
If you have had a previous version of Silverlight installed, or are using Mozilla Firefox, you will need to restart your browser.
Verify your installation by experiencing the Silverlight site.
For installation support, visit our support page.
Source: Microsoft Silverlight Website
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I have tried removing it from the extensions section in Chrome settings, but it reappears every time I reopen Chrome. My computer runs on Windows 7 Ultimate
As you haven't specified, I assume, you are using Windows OS. It is a potential malware. You have to uninstall the program explicitly from control panel and then restart chrome. It should work. If it doesn't work, then you might have to scan your system by some good anti-virus like kaspersky or avast.
You should download Microsoft Security Essentials (or another similar anti-virus program) I've used MSE in the past and it works well (without noticeably slowing down your system) there are no up-sells with it either (like you'll get w McAfee or Norton antivirus).
Just go to Google, search Microsoft Security Essentials. Then download and install the latest version (for Windows 7 32-bit)
It's free and should get rid of this program (looks like Malware to me).
Here's a link: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/security-essentials-all-versions
Can't find an answer to this anywhere.
We have a prototype PhoneGap app that we deploy to Android devices. Using Chrome Developer tools we can debug it using the normal tools edit CSS etc and it will change the display on the device.
This is all great but I was wondering is there a way to use the screencast tool that displays your phone screen within developer tools for a phonegap app. From what I can tell it on;y seems to be able to pick up sites open in Chrome on the android device.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ashley
Screencasting of WebViews is not supported at this time.
Maybe it's not exactly what you are looking for, but it helped me when troubleshooting:
Depending on the toolset you are using, you can try to access your local webserver on your development machine from the chrome browser on your android device. For this to work, the phone must be in your network (Wi-Fi).
I'm developing a PhoneGap app using Visual Studio and configured my environment to allow access from remote computers, see this blog post.
I also ran this command for my 'web site', found on the blog of Scott Hanselman:
C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express>IisExpressAdminCmd.exe
setupFriendlyHostnameUrl -url:http://yourcomputername:555/
Finally I was able to use the Screencasting feature, using the chrome browser from android.
Except that I was not able to use hardware features such as NFC, using the app via the browser felt the same.
For other environments, the procedure to enable remote access should be similar.
Martin
I'm working on a Chrome app, and I'm wondering if there is a way to offer customers a single downloadable package that will provide both Chrome (the browser) and my app.
You sometimes see this with Java and Adobe AIR apps. You can either download just the app (if you already have the JVM or AIR, respectively), or you can download a package that includes the app plus the runtime.
In this case, Chrome is the runtime. Is there a way to offer a single download that will install Chrome along with my app? I can offer that as an option for users who do not already have Chrome installed.
This is something that is being actively developed now. The bug to follow is https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=341353, but there isn't much visible there as it is being developed in an internal repository at Google.
I have developed my most complex Flash ActionScript app. I dont know how much complex they can get but I think mine is quite ordinary. it has about 1500 objects which are tween with zoom and colour changes only on click and connects to a database for data, eg, names of the objects are in a database. I have hard-coded the path to the web app that reads the database. The flash app reads the database from the web app (Visual Studio/server).
It works in my development environment (Flash CS4 > F12), with my required explores, ie, IE & FF.
However, when I try to run the the published version of it (.swf), which is in the same folder as the project, I simply get the error screen "Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r2 has stopped working", and nothing else happens. I am a little scared that I may have no way of publishing it for my client without having the whole code in the clients computer... Is there something I need to do to have it work in a server environment without Adobe Flash installed, ie, just the .swf file and the server settings with the database?
Note also that this worked when I started the project, when I was running a small file but as it grew bigger, even the debug mode stopped working...
I am running Win 7 64 bit, Flash CS4 and Visual Studio 2010 on my computer.
Thanks.
Sounds like a problem with the Adobe Flash Player web browser plugin you have installed, rather than a problem with your app or your swf. Try upgrading the plugin.
10.0 is a pretty old version by now, current version is 11.6. Also, it's a ".0" version, and 10.0 is known to have problems. It may or may not be important that your swf works in older Flash Players, including 10.0, but overall, not that many users have 10.0 installed today (http://www.statowl.com/flash.php).
Once upon a time,I have also meets up this issue, I found some root causes by using Vector class or invalid interfaces.
I'm making a software using AIR, and I got the installer installer.exe, but when I'm going to install in the target pcs, It tells me "This application requires a version of adobe air which cannot be found .....", but I need that my installer setup everything that I need to run my app in these pcs that have no Internet connection.
I'll appreciate any help !!
Greetings
Just download the latest AIR installer on a PC with an internet connection, and bring that along with your AIR app installer. You can get it from http://get.adobe.com/air/
From the research I've been doing, you can't legally include the runtime installer with your app unless you join adobe's runtime distribution license. If you look at the Adobe Runtime Distribution FAQ that seems pretty close to what you are trying to do.